What a strange, yet thrilling concept to be able to leave the house in January! Seriously, after the past two Januarys in lockdown, I was so happy to be able to go into the office, have some visits with friends and go out for tasty dinners: Alexis and her kids came over for a swim......
I went on a bit of a baking bender this past weekend, making a bunch of things for my friend Weedy and their family. Since I didn’t really do much baking in December, I had such a fun time settling back into my kitchen, pulling out all my ingredients and mixing up a storm. I......
I spent a lot of this month minding my own business because I didn’t want to get sick before my Christmas trip (!), but I did do a couple of fun things before my self-imposed isolation: First though, I made a care package for a friend and pulled some deep cuts from the archives: Carrot......
Continuing on with my retro party snacks, here’s another thing that reminds me of Christmas holidays when I was a kid. For whatever reason, my Mom would only buy chip dip* at Christmas time. That thick, stinky (in a good way) tub of onion dip would get peeled open and devoured with a bag of......
I’m extremely devoted to my Bits & Bites recipe; it’s one of my most nostalgic recipes that reminds me of being a kid at Christmas time. When I wrote that post in 2020 (one of my last pre-pandemic posts!) I mentioned how Deb had a fancy version on Smitten Kitchen, but I wasn’t ready to......
November is normally a pretty chill month for me (pandemic or not), but this year there were so many fun things going on! I also went to two restaurants that I’ve been thinking about for YEARS: Lydia and I went to see Mean Girls: The Musical and had dinner at Byblos beforehand. I’ve been once before (for......
Smitten Kitchen has a new cookbook out, and I’ve been counting down the days to both its delivery AND Deb’s book tour stop in Toronto. It’s now tradition! You can read about her first book tour in 2012 here, and her second tour in 2017 here. This time Kristine came with me, as well as......
I absolutely adore Molly Yeh, and have a series recording set up on my PVR for Girl Meets Farm so I never miss an episode. HOWEVER, it’s pretty rare that I make any of the recipes I actually see on the show, since Molly is routinely doing things like handmaking fresh pasta for homemade ravioli,......
Like I mentioned in my October recap, for some reason I had a vision of a Halloween cookie platter stuck in my head for the whole month. I made it a reality, and brought everything to work for some happy sugar rushes (and crashes). The first two cookies were some of my faves “Halloween-ized” –......
I always love October, and this year was no exception! Lots of cooking, another concert and I even left the country! More on that below: My work bestie Jess requested a Drake on Cake for her birthday, so I had so much fun planning it out and bringing it to life for her! She loves......